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TL;DR

Implement one or a few different ways to alter the "import from" with space logistic requests

Why?

Altering space logistic requests are a pain - if I decide to alter requests, I have to click each request and then change the import information one by one - this is really tedious. The team has implemented a lot of QoL changes throughout the game, this is an area that I think could also do with improvement.
Maybe I'm playing the game wrong by grouping my logistic requests from where I want to pick them up from (e.g. I usually have a "Vulcanus pickup" group), but I'm sure I can't be the only one doing this.

What?

I'm not fully sure what the best solution for this is, but I've got a few ideas:

Alter the picker tool behaviour
Currently, if you use the picker tool on a request, you can't then place that request within the same logistic group because you'll get a "Filter conflicts with filter in slot X" warning. Instead, you should be able to open the typical new request where the import information (planet & source) is defaulted to the value of the picked request, but the item to request is deselected. If the user then selects a new item, if the item's rocket capacity, stack size and quality are identical to the picked item, then the request amount and custom minimum payload are duplicated as well*. (I'm not fully sold on the last one as it could lead to some annoying "why was this copied over" situations, but the restrictions on the other values might solve this)

Add a "bulk" change button somewhere on the logistic group header
Given the situation is currently "It's annoying when I want to change the import source for a bunch of requests at once", the other situation is to add a specific bulk edit button to the logistic group request header that opens a new dialog that only contains the import source fields. You could also have a "scale" field here, but that would conflict with the local scale you can set per logistic request.

Add an "Import override" additional dialog in the "Change Logistic Request" dialog
Similar to the above, except it's not a separate "bulk edit" button. When specifically editing a logistic request on a space platform, there's an additional section gated under a checkbox of "Override request source", showing the same import options. Whatever is set here overrides the import source for all requests in that logistic request; but it's local to that instance, just like the request multiplier.

a similar but more specific suggestion is here 133907

+1

I'm not sure what exactly the ideal solution should be, but this is a point of friction that I also encounter regularly.

We're also having a similar discussion about this here: 700103